The two MPs who wrote on the subject of food banks (Letters, 25 August) should perhaps consider the waste of taxpayers' money on their own food. Under a freedom of information request, I have found that the House of Commons catering service loses £5.2m a year. MPs are paid over £60,000pa, hardly breadline or soup kitchen levels. Ministers are paid more and a fair few are millionaires. Yet taxpayer subsidise their meals. Is not this a perfect opportunity for the cabinet to savour pasties and install a branch of Greggs?John LoaderLeyburn, North Yorkshire

• Brilliant (MPs concerned at moving house, 27 August). Leaving the present fairy-tale environment might bring MPs back into the real world, the one the rest of us live in. Why not make it permanent and turn the present parliament building into a museum; it could then generate income rather than hot air.Ivan TrothBirmingham